Meet the fabulously feisty Clarice Bean in this hilarious short story. Brilliantly read by Claire Skinner – star of BBC’s Outnumbered!
All Clarice Bean wants is a bit of peace and quiet. But that can be hard to find in a house where your little brother is being utterly annoying, your big brother is in the dark tunnel of adolescence and your grandad’s pouring soup on his cornflakes . . .
“A fresh, playful, wonderfully chaotic look at family life that will make you laugh out loud” Independent
Written by former Children’s Laureate, Lauren Child, this is the story that launched the award-winning, bestselling Clarice Bean series!
(P)2019 The Watts Publishing Group Limited
All Clarice Bean wants is a bit of peace and quiet. But that can be hard to find in a house where your little brother is being utterly annoying, your big brother is in the dark tunnel of adolescence and your grandad’s pouring soup on his cornflakes . . .
“A fresh, playful, wonderfully chaotic look at family life that will make you laugh out loud” Independent
Written by former Children’s Laureate, Lauren Child, this is the story that launched the award-winning, bestselling Clarice Bean series!
(P)2019 The Watts Publishing Group Limited
Reviews
A real treat. This is only Lauren Child's second book for children and I'm totally hooked
Laugh-out-loud funny gloss on family life
Wonderful to read aloud.
Text and illustrations are united in giving this wittily ironic, child's-eye view of familiar characters and their foibles
For a humorous and refreshingly honest look at family life, you can't get any better than this
Full of wonderfully dry one-liners
Child's spot-on portrait of family life...has an anthropological quality reminiscent of Posy Simmonds' Weber family...exuberantly inventive
It'll make you roar with laughter
The quirky perspectives show cheerful disregard for convention in this unusual take on family life
Represents the arrival of a sparkling and irresistable new talent
A modern classic
Brilliantly written and drawn by Lauren Child, the cringe-worthy details are a joy
A fresh, playful, wonderfully chaotic look at family life that will make you laugh out loud
